Improved lacing device



UNITED STATES PATENT CEETEE.

E. C. C. KELLOGG, OF HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF, S. F. BENNETT, AND D. H. BURRILL, OF LITTLE FALLS, NEW YORK.

IMPROVED LACING DEVICE.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 52,645, dated February 13, 1866.

To all whom it may concern.-

Beit known that I, E. C. C. KELLOGG, of the city and county ot' Hartford, in the State of Connecticut, have invented a new and Improved Implement for Lacing or Joining the Ends ot'Machine-Belts; and I do hereby declare the following` to be a full, clear, and eX- act description ot' the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part ot' this specification, in which- Figure l is a perspective view. Fig. 2 is a detached partial section ot' a portion of the device.

Similar letters ot' reference indicate similar parts in all the drawings.

The object ot' this invention is to produce a compact implement by the use of which the different operations of 'trimming the ends of the belt, punching` the holes, enlarging the same when necessary, andinserting the lacing therein may b e conveniently and quickly performed; and it consists in a novel combination and arrangement in one implement of a knife for trimming or cutting oft' the ends-of the belt, a punch for making the holes, an awl for enlarging them, and a needle for passing the lacing through them, all arranged with reference to each other in such a way that each will perform its appropriate function as well as it' placed upon a separate handle and forming a separate implement.

To enable those skilled in the art to under# stand the construction and operation of my invention, l will proceed to describe it with reference to the drawings.

The body of the implement may be described as an ordinary belt-punch consisting of two levers, A and B, pivoted together at a, the short arm b of one lever being provided with a hollow punch, 7c, whiclrpert'orates the belt or other material, which is supported during the operation by the short arm d ofthe other lever.

The arm d of the lever A, instead of being made solid, as in the common belt-punch, has a deep groove, w. (Shown in Fig. 1.) Pivoted in this groove at the outer end of the arm d is a knife-blade, h, which projects outward, as shown in Fig. 2 and by dotted lines in Fig. l. This knife, when not in use, is folded. or shut into the groove w, and is retained in either an open or closed position by a spring, s, secured in the bottom of the groove by a rivet, u, and acting on the rearmost end of the blade, as represented in Fig 2.

The end m of the long arm ot' the lever Ais made cylindrical in its cross-section and tapers to a point, and has near its point an eye or hole, a", which passes through it. This end m, thus shaped, forms a needle, which is used in passing the lacing through the holes inthe belt. The end of the long arm ot the lever B is also tapered to a point, and is intended to be used as an awl to enlarge the said holes, when necessary, previous to passing the lacing through them.

Such being the construction of the device, it is employed as follows: The blade L is used to cut or trim the ends ofthe belt, as with an ordinary knife, and the holes are punched therein by the punch 7c in the usual way. lf the hole is not large enough, the awl a is thrust into it and worked around until the required enlargement thereof is obtained. The lacing-string is passed through the eye ai of the needle m, which is then pushed into the hole until the eye fr, carrying the lacing with it, comes out at the opposite side ot' the belt. The lacing is then pulled through the hole in the belt and out ofthe eye ofthe needle, and the same operations are repeated in forming the remaining holes and passing thelacing through them. The lacing' is drawn tight and arranged with reference to the belt in any ofthe usual ways.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The punch k, knife-blade h, needle m, and awl a, arranged with reference to each other upon the pivoted levers A B, substantially as set forth, for t-he purpose specilied.

E. C. C. KELLOGG. Witnesses:

J AMES WATSON,

WILLIS W. CLARKE. 

